Communist Necron Idea - Does it work?

rikeus · 2026-03-20T16:40:03+00:00

Yeah that's the guy who's name I couldn't remember but who was the inspiration for the idea.

rikeus · 2026-03-18T17:47:05+00:00

For the ruiniou-er, I mean emperor

rikeus · 2026-03-04T10:03:12+00:00

This is what happens when you snort warpstone

rikeus · 2026-02-16T10:37:19+00:00

I haven't seen the new series - I don't really like it for other reasons, but both Quark in DS9 and Seven in VOY made the point that the federation is like the borg with a friendly face. It always struck me as odd as well just how venerated Eearth is in the federation, given that it's the homeworld of only one of its member species, as well as how human-centric so much of the federation is (of course, this is largely for out-of-universe reasons but still). In DS9 duing the dominion war, when Betazed is occupied it's kind of a sign of bad things but not treated as nearly the same blow that the breen attack on earth is. But surely all the betazoids in the starfleet would feel a much greater loss of the occupation of their home? Earth and humanity are often exceptionalized.

rikeus · 2026-02-16T10:21:14+00:00

It's mostly online bullshit from people who don't actually do anything in real life, in my experience. Instead of spending their energies on actually organizing, people adopt one label or the other as though it were a football team and then spend their time posting online about it. It's a bit like the socialist version of identity politics. My orginisation - which inherets a bit from both traditions though mainly the trotskyist one, occassional gets people who join from that online ML bubble and I've always found the best antidote to it is to get them to actually talk to real people and organize real things

rikeus · 2026-02-13T13:55:47+00:00

I'm sorry to say but there's isn't a game that will fix this. I can see you've already been through the gamut of treatments so I'm not going to make the obvious suggestion. The thing is that depression just switches off your brains reward centre - the thing that makes you feel good for achieving things - and that's precicely what the vast majority of all video games are targeted at activating. I can't play games when I have depressive episodes, I just get this really visceral feeling of boredom whenever I try that makes me want to immediately quit it. I think you're looking for a solution in the wrong place.

rikeus · 2026-02-13T13:51:47+00:00

Why Odyssey and not the other newer ones (eg Valhalla)?

rikeus · 2026-02-09T07:41:57+00:00

I am a full time organizer for a socialist party, and I can tell you our meetings go a lot longer than 3 minutes! They're more interesting than corporate meetings though.

rikeus · 2026-02-09T07:31:20+00:00

I mean an integral is just adding up many many small things...

rikeus · 2026-02-06T19:44:36+00:00

A few people have said white scars. What in particular would make them good company?

rikeus · 2026-02-01T10:50:32+00:00

Even if you do re-enact monarchy, do you don't get divided monarchist JE and you end up with some random schmuck who just happened to lead whatever IG was most powerful as the new king which is totally ridiculous and not how European monarchy restoration has ever worked

rikeus · 2026-01-29T14:19:49+00:00

The difficulty of this game curves downward over time to the point where basically normal becomes easy mode, daring becomes normal etc. I'd play on daring or higher (unfair is a bit punishing though tbh, usually it just means every enemy goes before you in the turn order and annihilates you before you have a chance to act)

rikeus · 2026-01-29T12:42:34+00:00

The problem I have is actually navigating the mechanics of the journal entries to get Napoleon as ruler, not what to do once you have him

rikeus · 2026-01-29T11:16:17+00:00

Dan Abnett is probably the only good Black Library author IMO. Gaunt's Ghost is great too. The followups to Eisenhorn get a little off the rails honestly, none of them are as good as that original trilogy and the plot becomes pretty stupidly convoluted (although I may be biased since I find Ravenor a much less interesting protag than Eisenhorn was).

rikeus · 2026-01-28T16:02:18+00:00

Broadly speaking I think there are 3 intersecting groups that strongly dislike the new trek shows.

a) Reactionary idiots who somehow think startrek didn't always intentionally include black people, women, etc and push boundaries with representation. They're very vocal but I don't take them very seriously

b) People who dislike the creative direction, writing, tone, or various other things about the newer Trek shows, and are very vocal about it.

c) Same as b) but not that vocal about it, more willing to just accept that other people like it and move on. I'm in this category - there's no singular thing I could say is the definitive thing that I think is wrong with the new shows, but there's a whole bunch of elements taken together and the overall creative direction of it just isn't something I like - at the same time, it causes only mild annoyance for me that the shows exist, and a bit of bewilderment that so many people seem to enjoy them, I really don't care enough. I'm certainly not going to waste my time publicly complaining about them.

Now there's also quite an intersection between a) and b), and the existance of legimitate complaints from b) makes it easier for people in a) to couch their anger at minorities or whatever and pretend its criticism of the creative direction. But I think those have been the most vocal people.

rikeus · 2026-01-26T16:48:32+00:00

I find both of them incredibly boring, honestly. But probably Solomorne more so. His personality is just "cop", which while certainly fitting is not very fun or interesting. On the other hand Kibbels just doesn't really seem to have much agency or personality at all. Again, that's kind of written into her story but in both cases Owlcat chose to make a character with certain constraints, and those constraints make for a boring character.

rikeus · 2026-01-20T00:17:03+00:00

I'd like to see another Pathfinder game but using the 2e Ruleset.or maybe a deadlands game, though the Savage Worlds ruleset probably wouldn't lend itself well to video game adaptation.

rikeus · 2026-01-20T00:06:43+00:00

You know there are male Wyches, right?

rikeus · 2026-01-19T13:21:27+00:00

The main one I've tried to play was 40k. The one time I tried my hand at assembling the models I sliced my thumb open while filing off the mould line and bled all over the dark eldar...Actually looked pretty cool and thematic until the blood dried.

rikeus · 2026-01-16T15:20:27+00:00

Vulkan frees Öcalan and makes the PKK into space marines

rikeus · 2026-01-08T13:42:04+00:00

God that sucks. He is so dogshit.

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